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Zombieland
EMAILPRINTColumbia Pictures (Sony)

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 31 critic reviews
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Based on 151 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Horror
Written by:
Rhett Reese
Paul Wernick
Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 80 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for horror violence/gore and language
Starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin
Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other. (Sony Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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Los Angeles Times Michael Ordona
First-time feature director Ruben Fleischer brings impeccable timing and bloodthirsty wit to the proceedings. Cinematographer Michael Bonvillain captures some interesting images amid the post-apocalyptic carnival of carnage, as when he transforms the destruction of a souvenir shop into a rough ballet.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Elias Savada
Thankfully there's nothing remotely serious about Zombieland. It's just a heck of carnival attraction (Shoot the ducks/Shoot the zombies) on a roller coaster filled with laughs.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Zombieland is dead set against being dead serious. Its tonal pallor has more in common with a foreshortened "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" than with "28 Days" or "Weeks Later," and then, again, there's that jaw-dropping cameo. It'll kill ya.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Warts, entrails and all, I had a ball at Zombieland. It’s 81 minutes of my kind of stupid.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Modestly clever, this is definitely a little thing. Enjoy.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
The four protagonists aren’t about to let something as minor as the complete breakdown of society get in the way of having a good time, and their fun proves infectious.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
At the bone, Zombieland is a polished, very funny road picture shaped by wisenheimer cable-TV sensibilities and starring four likable actors, each with an influential following.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Falling closer in tone to "Shaun of the Dead" than "28 Days Later" or the George Romero movies, Zombieland has its tongue planted firmly in its rancid cheek while still delivering the visceral goodies.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
An exhilarating ride, start to finish. Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg set a high bar for this subgenre with "Shaun of the Dead," but Reese, Werner and Fleischer may have trumped them. This isn't just a good zombie comedy. It's a damn fine movie, period. And that's high praise, coming from a vampire guy.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
The picture is beautifully paced, with an exhilarating, comically violent opening, a halcyon middle section where, in what could be viewed as a sideways homage to "Rebel Without a Cause," our rootless wanderers share a brief respite in an empty, lavish mansion, and a finale filled with light and color and movement (as well as piles of vanquished zombies).
Read Full Review >Slate Josh Levin
These down moments are fleeting, drowned out by the joyous din of zombie slaying and a scattering of subtler touches, such as Woody Harrelson's shotgun-savant Tallahassee painting a "3" on the side of his various commandeered vehicles, presumably a tribute to NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
The movie's a ride, basically. It's a slick, funny buddy-flick confection about a dork (Jesse Eisenberg), a Twinkie-loving hick (Harrelson), a hottie (Emma Stone) and a sassy kid (Abigail Breslin) who bicker and bond as they drive cross-country after a zombie plague.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Zombieland is still the funniest broad comedy since "The Hangover." Its yowling, marching, munching corpses are as scary as grad students and as hilarious as the plot of "G.I. Joe."
Read Full Review >New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott
It's great, gruesome fun, a well-written and fantastically cast romp.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Isn't an especially good horror movie, it succeeds in enough different ways that such a defect hardly matters.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
It also boasts one of the funniest, loopiest Woody Harrelson turns in years.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
What Zombieland’ has instead - in spades - is deliciously weary end-of-the-world banter.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Guilty-pleasure movies should not be underestimated. I had a scary-fun-house blast at Zombieland, in which studly Woody Harrelson, nerdy Jesse Eisenberg, sexy Emma Stone and sunshiny Abigail Breslin roam a near-dead world kicking zombie ass.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
The secret in this case is the jokes, which are ferocious. Marrying a monster flick with an adolescent romance has produced a merry mutant.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Who would have guessed such a funny movie as Zombieland could be made around zombies? No thanks to the zombies.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Scary? Yes, in spots. Gratuitously gory? You bet. But, first and foremost, Zombieland is a comedy.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen
Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick wring a surprising amount of juice from the familiar premise, and director Ruben Fleischer heaps on the gore without burying their character-based comedy and surprisingly heartfelt moments. This is worth seeing just for the title sequence.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
Benefiting from the very different but very appealing comedy styles of Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg even when the script's wit runs thin, this should be catnip to jaded genre fans.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Joshua Rothkopf
The movie isn’t particularly scary--not a crime when your goal is laughs. More egregious is the niggling fact that this simply isn’t as witty as "Shaun of the Dead," forever the yuks-meet-yucks standard.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
The action-comedy Zombieland works because it's played with an emphasis on the living, not the undead.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Yet, even at its worst, Zombieland is better than most movies of its kind - disgusting but not too disgusting, and with a few laughs.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ruth McCann
Zombieland is sometimes funny. But those of us who have teeny coronaries every time something goes bump in Zombieland might have a hard time relaxing for long enough to really enjoy ourselves.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
A minor diversion dripping in splatter and groaning with self-amusement.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Scott Foundas
Fitfully amusing romp directed with little ambition and even less distinction by first-timer Ruben Fleischer.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 151 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Stephen G gave it a9:
Zombieland is really good. I recomend seeing it.
Mark C gave it a6:
Pretty funny in some spots, drags a little in the middle. Overall, good movie to see.
Ken G gave it an8:
Goofier than most zombie movies, but still fill of action, thrills and suspense, this is just a lot of fun.
Jerry W gave it an8:
Woody Harrelson leads a group of desperate humans in a world overrun by flesh-eating zombies. The action is as brutal and bloody as you might expect, but it kicks ass! What makes this even better is the comedy…snappy and impudent. (Bill Murray’s cameo is already a classic!) The flick fast-paced, chocked full of great kills and pure popcorn pleasure. The most fun I’ve had at an action film since “Star Trek.” NOTE: Stay thru the credits for an extra laff.
Ryan S gave it a7:
I liked the zombies, the gore, the violence. Woody Harrelson makes a good zombie killer. The laughs were there, but there was nothing overly funny. The teen romance element was kind of out of place.
homes gave it a10:
Truly a funny horror/comedy. Touching (as much as it can be) as well. I wish to restate this comedy is actually funny. A funny comedy, complete with new catch phrases like "nut up, or shut up". I recommend it to anyone with a stomach for gore and a sense of humor.
Eric W gave it a9:
Truly a great experience for any zombie enthusiast. I never grew tired of it's comedic moments and the action parts were pretty solid for a zombie film. This movie sits up there with Shaun of the dead on my list of favorite films.
